The IssueAs you can see below. When I pull statistics from vmnic0 it is showing a large amount packets received and a large amount of packet drops. However, as mentioned above, this vmnic is administratively down as you will see below.

When I run the below command and use WireShark to review the .pcap file I see (as confirmed by VMware technical support) that the file shows packets that mirror what vmnic2 is receiving. Almost as if the vmnic ports are replicating their traffic across ports??

Currently this is unresolved. VMware has asked that I open a hardware ticket for my Emulex card to see if there is a hardware defect causing this "packet replication" issue. I will update when/if a resolution is reached.

Good morning, thanks for the question. No unfortunately we never got a solid answer on what this was happening. We believe it was a hardware/firmware issue with the Emulex adapter but neither IBM or VMware took credit for being the root cause of the problem. We began to ignore the issue since we know those VMnics are down.